I. A funeral pile (syn. bustum): ROGVM ASCIA NE POLITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59; Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 44: “aliena rogorum insuper exstructa,” Lucr. 6, 1283; Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 59: “in rogum illatus,” id. N. D. 3, 35, 84: “ascendere in rogum,” id. Div. 1, 23, 47: “aliquem in rogum imponere,” id. Tusc. 1, 35, 85: “rogum exstruere,” id. Fin. 3, 22, 76: “rogo illata,” Plin. 7, 3, 3, § 34: “portari in rogum,” id. 7, 44, 45, § 142; Verg. A. 4, 640; 646; 11, 189 et saep.— Poet.: “diffugiunt avidos carmina sola rogos,” i. e. escape destruction, Ov. Am. 3, 9, 28.—
rŏgus , i, m. (collat. form rŏgum , i, n., Afran. ap. Non. 221, 24; cf. Com. Rel. p. 153 Rib.).